Photography - Composition - Inspirational

Flash Photography With The Elinchrom Octa



Chris Burfoot demonstrates the Elinchrom Octa, a giant softbox, used as a white background. and also demonstrates the Elinchrom Octa, a giant softbox, used as a huge ringflash for fashion and lifestyle portraits.

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Wonderful Wedding Photography by: Captured Moments Photography



Take a peek on some of Heather Marie Ryn's Wonderful wedding photography... She captures your images as timeless art with a modern flare and become one of the most important resource for sharing memories and staying in touch with family, relatives and friends. she believe that being her treasured clients, you deserve only the best service available, and she hopes that you enjoy browsing and sharing your most treasured memories. She was looking forward to bring creativity to the most important event of your life. -fragile

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19 Amazing Free Graphic and Image Editors for Designers and Photographers

"In this article you will find a range of Free editors that can be used by graphic designers, photographers, animators, artists and even kids. Some have basic functionality, for the amateur or learner, others are very powerful and professional, suitable for the professional."

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My HDR Tutorial by: Markus Linke

Clear tutorial on using your digital camera, Photomatix and Photoshop, by Markus Linke.

HDR tutorial

Tutorial on HDR with free-of-charge software GIMP and Qtpfsgui

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If you don’t like these kinds of photos, please move along. No complaints will be accepted.

35 Fantastic HDR Pictures
This post covers 35 beautiful and perfectly executed HDR pictures. Some of them may look surreal, too colorful, even magic or fake, but they are not. Keep in mind that they’ve all been developed from normal photos; not a single image is an illustration.

HDR Tutorial
HDR how-to guide, mostly related to Mac users.

HDR: High Dynamic Range Photography
HDR how-to guide with Photoshop CS2

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Digital Black and White
This site features professional photography articles written by Keith Cooper. It covers black/white-photography-techniques, image manipulation techniques, tools, articles and camera reviews.

The Top 5 Black & White Photography Tips
Five handy tips to get you going in the right direction: practice, focus on contrast, focus on texture, use color filters and more. If you want to learn more about the actual black and white conversion process in Photoshop, see the article 12 Ways to Make a Black & White Photo as well.

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Black and White Photography Guide
Black and white photography starts before the shot is even taken. In this article you’ll find some quick tips on what to look for to ensure the perfect black and white landscape – e.g. camera settings for black and white photography and what filters are good for black and white landscapes.

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5 Black and White Photography Tips

A short, but useful article by by Darren Rowse, featuring shoot in RAW, low ISO and other techniques. You may also consider reading the articles Key Ingredients for Black and White Images

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170+ Excellent Fresh Logos Inspirational Showcase

Working on a design for a new Logo? Looking for inspiration? You have come to the right place! This article “Fresh Logos Inspirational Showcase” will take you through a seriously large series of intelligent, well designed and inspirational Logos. Good Logos isn’t something designers just create – Good Logos need to catch attention and be easy to memorize. This is the hard part really but as you can see below there are plenty of ideas to stimulate the human mind and force us to say…hmmm what is that? Hope you will produce some unique ideas of your own by going through the list below!

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10 Essential On-line Generators for Designers

Inventing the wheel every time you need a ride wouldn’t be smart right. If you’re Web Designer the same basic principle rules – don’t start from scratch every time! Reuse, be inspired and use tools that make your life easier. Many great tools are available for free or at a low cost and if you find the right ones for you it may really help you out. This post focus on on-line generators for fx. creating buttons, tabs, background images and more. Take a look and see if some of these can make a difference for you…

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25 Website Designs with Great use of Textures

Using textures in web design have become quite popular. Textures are great for giving the design a more realistic look and feel but should be used with caution. Adding too much texture risk making the design too messy and it easily becomes a bit grunge’ish. I personally like simple textures or simply noise that break the colours a bit and gives depth and brings the design to life when used right. This post brings 25 sites with different use of textures for your inspiration. Drop a comment and share if you like some of them or if you know others I should add.